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  Jeff Arch, Anita Barrows, Jay Belsky, Senator Jeff Bingaman, Daniel Boyarin, Jonathan Boyarin, Michael Boyle, Kimberly Brooks, Jennifer Buhl, Frtijof Capra, Gina Cascone, Stacy Clark, Kunal Das, David Dayen, Anjanette Delgado, Nora Demleitner, Daniel Ellsberg, Fred Estes, Todd Farley, Estate of Ralph Gleason, Mark Goldblatt, Gayle Greene, Susan Griffin, Bradley Hart, Steven Hatch, Estate of Beth Hensperger, Henry Herz, Bill Holstein, Michele Anna Jordan, Elisa Kleven, Estate of Paul Krassner, Roger Kreuz, Andrei Lankov, Devra Lehmann, Richard Leiter, Michael Levitin, Adrian Maher, Josh Margolin, Mary Jo McConahay, Michael McLaughlin, Claudia Melendez, Dan Moller, Stephen Monteiro, Estate of Gerald Nachman, Scott Ostler, Michael Parenti, Randall Platt, Julia Reynolds, Peter Richardson,Lawrence Rosenthal, Peter Rudiak-Gould, Pierce Salguero, Bryan Schmidt, David Sedlak, Bryony Sheppard, Ted Sherman, Estate of Leonard Shlain, Timothy Sprinkle, Joan Steidinger, Gwen Strauss, Erik Tarloff, Mary Thompson-Jones, Trevor Tolliver, Milton Viorst, Linda Watanabe McFerrin, Tawni Waters, Kate Whouley, Lance Williams, Jerrold Winter, Ben Zauzmer
Andy Ross Agency Selected Titles

Daniel Ellsberg. The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner. Before the Pentagon Papers, before Watergate, Daniel Ellsberg worked in the U. S. national security system at the highest levels on  command and control of nuclear weapons.  The American Doomsday Machine is a memoir of that time. It will tell the shocking story of the secret plan developed by the U.S. government and approved by the President and the Joint Chiefs of Staff that would launch a nuclear strike against Russia and China that the government knew would kill 600,000,000 people. 

Shortlisted for The Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction

Bloomsbury Press. December, 2017

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http://www.ellsberg.net/

Gwen Strauss. The Nine: The True Story of A Band of Women Who survived the Worst of Nazi Germany.It is the thrilling - almost cinematic - and previously untold story of 9 young women, World War 2 resistance fighters, captured by the Nazis, who together launch a breathless escape from a death march to reach the allied lines.  

Saint Martin's Press.2021

Rights - Saint Martin's Press: UK and translation. Andy Ross Agency: Film/TV/Performance.     

Senator Jeff Bingaman. Breakdown: Lessons For a Congress in Crisis. Jeff Bingaman was the U.S. Senator from New Mexico from 1983-2013. He had a front-row seat for the breakdown of governing norms and the radical increases polarization and partisanship. This book traces the development of congressional dysfunction over more than three decades.  

High Road Books. October, 2022

Rights - High Road Books: UK and translation. Andy Ross Agency: Film/TV/Performance.     

Leonard Shlain. Leonardo's Brain: Understanding Da Vinci's Creative Genius. The best selling author of Art and Physics attempts to explain the singularity of Leonardo's genius by employing contemporary state-of-the-art left-right brain research.

Published by Lyons Press. October, 2014

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Peter Richardson. No Simple Highway: A Cultural History of The Grateful Dead.  This book is more of a cultural history than a fan's book. No Simple Highway vividly recounts the Dead's colorful history and probes the riddle of the Dead's unique and durable appeal. Arguing that the band successfully tapped three powerful utopian ideals - ecstasy, mobility, and community - it also shows that the Dead's lived experience with these ideals and their consequences was complex and paradoxical. 

Published by Saint Martin's Press. January, 2015

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Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson.  Beasts: What Animals Can Teach Can Teach  Us About  the Origins of Good and Evil.  This book is both a summation of Jeff's 30 years of thought about the emotional life of animals and an audacious attempt to integrate those insights into a new interpretation of the origins of evil in human history. The book begins with a comparison of the two supreme creatures at the top of the food chain: Orcas and humans. He points out several incontrovertible facts: 1)There are no documented attacks of humans by Orcas living in the wild. 2) The number of Orcas killed by other Orcas throughout history is zero. 3) The number of Orcas killed by humans is not known, but is many thousands at least. 4) The number of humans killed by other humans in the 20th century alone is somewhere around 180 million.  From these facts, the author asks a deceptively simple but immensely profound question: "What happened to us? "

Published by Bloomsbury Press. March, 2014

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Other Titles By Jeffrey Masson: Dogs Make Us Human and The Dog Who Couldn't Stop Loving

Susan Griffin. Out of Silence - Sound. Out of Nothing - Something: A Writer's Guide. In an elegant but contemporary voice, award-winning author Susan Griffin breaks down the creative process step-by-step, the reader through a practical course in how to begin and end a work of literature, whether fiction or nonfiction, poetry, or prose.

Published by Counterpoint Press. January, 2023

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Fritjof Capra. Patterns of Connection: Essential Essays from Five Decades.Fritjof Capra, scientist, educator, activist, and author of The Tao of Physics presents the collection of his thoughts over five decades.

Published by University of New Mexico Press October, 2021

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Tawni Waters. Beauty of the Broken. A debut  young adult novel. In this coming of age story, 16 year old Mara Stonebrook discovers her blossoming lesbian passion for the new girl in school as she struggles and triumphs over a violant and abusive father and an intolerant and homophobic community.

Winner of the 2015 International Reading Association Book Award for Best Young Adult Debut Novel

Published by Simon Pulse Books.  August, 2014

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Michael Parenti. God and His Demons.  Michael Parenti brings his critical acumen and rhetorical skills to bear on the dark side of religion, from the many evils committed in the name of holy causes throughout history to the vast hypocrisies of its unworthy advocates past and present.  Parenti's focus is the heartless exploitation of faithful followers by those in power, as well as sectarian intolerance, the violence against heretics and nonbelievers, and the reactionary political and economic collusion that has often prevailed between the upper echelons of church and state.

"God and His Demonsis filled with sparkling insights, sly wit, and beautiful writing of a kind we have come to expect from Michael Parenti. A riveting read that I recommend to all." --Julia Scheeres, author of Jesus Land

Published by Prometheus Books. March, 2010

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Josh Margolin and Ted Sherman. The Jersey Sting: A True Story of Corrupt Jersey Pols, Money Laundering Rabbis, Black Market Kidneys,and the Informant Who Brought it allDown. The real story behind the biggest corruption bust in New Jersey's notoriously corrupt history. Among the forty-four people arrested in July 2009 were three mayors, five Orthodox rabbis, two state legislators, and the flamboyant deputy mayor of Jersey City, once a stripper using the stage name "Hope Diamond". At the center of it all was a dubious character named Solomon Dwek, who perpetrated a $50 million Ponzi scheme before copping a plea and wearing a wire as a secret FBI undercover informant, setting up friends, partners, rabbis, and dozens of politicians. 

http://www.thejerseysting.com/

Published by St. Martin's Press.  March, 2011

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Mary Jo McConahay. Maya Roads: One Woman's Journey Among the People of the Rainforest. In Maya Roads, McConahay draws upon her three decades of traveling and living in Central America's remote landscapes to create a fascinating chronicle of the people, politics, archaeology, and species of the Central American rainforest, the cradle of Maya civilization.

Winner of the 2013 Independent Publisher Book Award Gold Medal for Travel Writing. Winner of the 2012 Northern California Book Award for Creative Non-fiction.

Published by Chicago Review Press, August 2011

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http://www.maryjomcconahay.com/

David Sedlak. Water 4.0: The Past, Present and Future of the World's Most Precious Resource.  This book examines the most common and essential, but frequently taken for granted,  element in our lives. It looks at its history beginning with ancient Rome, its chemistry, the story of how it is treated and  delivered to our homes, and the challenges and changes that will be required to accommodate a growing world population. The author is Professor of Engineering at University of California, Berkeley specializing in environmental chemistry and water quality engineering.

Winner of the 2014 American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) in Engineering & Technology

Published by Yale University Press. January, 2014

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http://www.ce.berkeley.edu/~sedlak/links-media.shtml

Jeff Arch. Attachments. By the creator and screenwriter of the beloved film Sleepless in Seattle. A novel overflowing with heart. At a boarding school, a deathbed request from the schoo's dean brings three former students back to campus, where secrets from the past are bdrought out into the open.

Published by Spark Press.  September, 20217

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Paul Krassner. Who's to Say What's Obscene. Paul Krassner was founder and editor of The Realist, one of the most popular magazines of the Sixties Counter Culture. Indeed, Krassner is one of the great iconic figures of this period. Unlike many people associated with the Sixties, Paul continues his vision and his unique satirical style.  Which is alternately hilarious, biting, vulgar, and always intelligent. The project we are working on includes recent articles and essays by Paul on comedy, drugs, freedom of speech, and other reflections on culture.

Published by City Lights Publications in July, 2009

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http://paulkrassner.com/

Daniel Boyarin.. The No-State Solution: A Jewish Manifesto. Daniel Boyarin is the Hermann P. and Sophia Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture at the University of California Berkeley. This book addresses the 2000 year old question of "What is a Jew?" Boyarin argues that Judaism is neiher a religion, an ethnicity nor a nation state. Rather he argues Jews are a "diaspora nation." A book that will generate controversy throughout the Jewish world.

Published by Yale University Press. January, 2023

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Mary Jo McConahay. Playing God: American Catholic Bishops and the Far Right.The definitive account of how a group of American Catholic bishops are using dark money and allying with ultra-right Evangelicals in an attempt to remake America.

Published by Melville House. 2023

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Gerald Nachman. Showstoppers!: The Surprising Backstage Stories of Broadway's Most Remarkable songs.  Showstoppers! is all about Broadway musicals' most memorable numbers, why they were so effective, how they were created, and why they still resonate told through the eyes of the performers, songwriters, directors, and choreographers who first built these explosive numbers. Gerald Nachman interviewed dozens of iconic musical theater figures, including Patti LuPone, John Raitt, Jerry Herman, Dick Van Dyke, Joel Grey, Marvin Hamlisch, and Harold Prince, uncovering priceless untold anecdotes and details.

Published by Chicago Review Press. November, 2016

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Lawrence Rosenthal. Empire of Resentment: Populism's Toxic Embrace of Nationalism Lawrence Rosenthal, the director of The Berkeley Center For Right-wing Studies, tells the extraordinary story of how the transformation of the American far right made the Trump presidency possible and what it portends for the future.

Published by The New Press. August, 2020

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Michele Anna Jordan. Vinaigrettes and Other Dressings: 60 Sensational Recipes. James Beard Award Winner Michele Anna Jordan has been perfecting her dressing-making craft over several decades as a chef, food columnist, and cookbook author. While the emphasis is on dressings for green salads, there are ample ideas for other uses, such as for potato salads, fruit salads, and salads that include meats or fish. There's also a bonus chapter with thirteen basic "foundation" salads.   

Published by Harvard Common Press. April, 2013

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Other Titles by Michele Anna Jordan: More Than Meatballs, Good Cook's Book of Oil and Vinegar, Good Cook's Book of Salt and Pepper, Good Cook's Book of Mustard.

http://www.micheleannajordan.com/Home.html

Beth Hensperger. The Bread Lover's Bread Machine Cookbook. Over 200,000 copies sold. The best and best selling cookbook for your bread machine. Includes 300 recipes.

Published by Harvard Common Press. April, 2000

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Other Titles by Beth Hensperger: The Ultimate Rice Cooker Cookbook, Not Your Mother's Microwave Cookbook, Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook, Not Your Mothers Slow Cooker Recipes for Two

Andrei Lankov. The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia. The author is a professor at Kookmin University in Seoul and one of the world's most prominent scholars of North Korea. Lankov presents a picture of North Korea that is different and more complex than the  stories we read about in the media. He discusses its history; he describes the internal workings of its government;  he explains the  not always irrational motives that drive its  international policies; he assesses the personalities of the leaders of history's  only communist monarchy, and he gives informed speculation on the likely future of the country under the leadership of Kim Jong Un.

Published by  Oxford University Press. May, 2013. 

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Julie Reynolds. Blood in the Fields: Ten Years Inside California's Nuestra Familia Gang.. Prize winning journalist and Nieman Fellow Julie Reynolds tells the "fly on the wall" story of America's largest Latino gang and the botched efforts of the FBI to dismantle it."

Published by Chicago Review Press. September, 2014

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Erik Tarloff. The Woman in Black. Chance Hardwick, the fictitious star of the breakout film Plains and Hills, is widely considered the greatest, most charismatic young movie actor of the postwar generation. However, his meteoric rise to fame and his tragic demise have remained an inexplicable puzzle to all who knew him, as well as to his millions of fans around the world. From the author of Face-Time.

Published by Rare Bird Books. March, 2019  March, 2014

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Bradley Hart. Hitler's American Friends: The Third Reich's Supporters in the United States. This book examines the strange terrain of Nazi sympathizers, non-interventionists, America Firsters, and the American voices that advocated for Nazi Germany.

Winner of the Sybil Halpern MIlton Book Prize of the German Studies Association

Published by Saint Martin's Press.  October, 2018

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David Dayen. Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power.  David Dayen, editor of "The American Prospect", shows how monopolies have transformed us and changed our lives.  

Published by The New Press. June, 2020

Rights - The New Press: World book rights. Andy Ross Agency: Film/TV/Performance.     

Milton Viorst. Zionism: The Birth and Transformation of an Ideal.  The first complete history of Zionism in 40 years. Viorst describes how Zionism evolved from a secular vision into a doctrine infused with chauvinism and religious ardor.  

Published by Thomas Dunne Books. March, 2016

Rights - Macmillan Publishing: World book rights. Andy Ross Agency: Film/TV/Performance.     

Andy Ross. The Literary Agent's Guide To Writing a Non-fiction Book Proposal.Literary agent Andy Ross lays out the essential information you need to construct a great book proposal. The book includes examples from real proposals.

Published by The Andy Ross Agency.  August, 2016

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Mary Jo McConahay. Tango War: the Allies and the Axis in Latin America, 1935-1945.   The suspenseful and dramatic story, never before told, of the secret race between the Allies and the Axis to secure the allegiance and natural resources of Latin America before and during the Second World War.  

Starred reviews: Kirkus, Publishers Weekly

Published by Saint Martin's Press. September, 2018

Rights - MacMillan: World book rights. Andy Ross Agency: Film/TV/Performance.     

Randall Platt. The Girl Who Wouldn't Die.   A young adult novel. The setting is Warsaw, 1940. Abra, a 17 year old Jewish girl, estranged from her wealthy family, is living on the streets of Warsaw trying to survive the brutal life during the German occupation. In the course of the novel, she meets and develops a complicated and wary friendship with a German SS officer, who has his own secrets and inner conflicts.  

Finalist for the Washington State Book Awards

Sky Horse Press. May, 2017

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Dr. Steven Hatch. Inferno: A Doctor's Ebola Story.   A physician's memoir of the Ebola outbreak in Liberia. It describes the life of an Ebola Treatment Unit at the height of the epidemic in October 2014, when patients were felled by the hundreds each week and families and whole communities were torn apart at the seams.  

Published by Saint Martin's Press. March, 2017

Rights - MacMillan: World book rights. Andy Ross Agency: Film/TV/Performance.     

Ralph Gleason. Edited by Toby Gleason. Music in the Air: The Selected Writings of Ralph Gleason. The first collection of writings by legendary rock and jazz critic and co-founder of Rolling Stone Magazine, Ralph Gleason  .

Published by Yale University Press. May, 2016

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